Longtime readers know of my aversion to compact fluorescent lightbulbs. LED (light emanating diodes) have a similar energy efficiency to fluorescent bulbs with a far friendlier environmental impact, but much higher cost as they currently require sapphire. Purdue scientists have figured out a way around this problem.
Assuming you drive the same miles per year, which change will save more gas in a given year:
* Switching from a Dodge Ram at 13 MPG to a Toyota Tundra at 15 MPG
* Switching from a Honda Fit at 32 MPG to a Toyota Prius at 44 MPG.
(Mileage figures are from Consumer Reports.)
Have your [...]
From the ominously titled European Space Agency press release, Even the Antarctic winter cannot protect Wilkins Ice Shelf:
Wilkins Ice Shelf, a broad plate of floating ice south of South America on the Antarctic Peninsula, is connected to two islands, Charcot and Latady. In February 2008, an area of about 400 km² broke off from the [...]
The deadly, fraudulent, heparin sold by a Chinese manufacturer to Baxter shares much with the deadly, fraudulent, wheat gluten and gluttonous, fraudulent, financial crisis.
These frauds are not accidents, slips of care, but rather deliberate attempts to game tests of quality, to turn garbage into gold.
The toxic wheat gluten was doped with melamine, in a brilliant [...]
Today, for the first time ever, oil ended the day above $100 a barrel.
It won’t last.
The last time oil hit these levels (adjusted for inflation) was in 1980, after the throes of the Iranian revolution. The sudden drop in supply shot prices upwards. Before that, during the oil embargo of 1973, oil simply ran out [...]
